US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on March 25 for "Automatic assignment of device debug communication pins" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,705, issued on March 25, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Automatic assignment of device debug communication pins" was invented by Stephen Bowling (Chandler, Ariz.), Manivannan Balu (Karnataka, India), Timothy Phoenix (Pepperell, Mass.) and Sankar Rangarajan (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a debugger circuit, debug pins, and a test controller circuit. The test controller circuit is configured to, in a programming mode, determine a subset of the debug pins used in programming the apparatus. The test controller circuit is further configured to save a designation of the...